Join us to observe a Holy Hour of Prayer in the Queen of Angels Church at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 10, 2021 as part of Divine Mercy Sunday weekend. The hour includes solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, music, and a reflection from guest presider Father Xamie Reyes. Prayer aids will be available. At the end of the Holy Hour, our Pastor Monsignor Jim Kaczorowski will lead Benediction and the enshrinement of an image of the Divine Mercy for Queen of Angels Church, site of shared worship for Queen of Apostles Parish (formerly Queen of Angels and St. Matthias).
Because of the pandemic, please register for the Holy Hour if you plan to attend. Attendees are encouraged to plan to return for the 5 p.m. Mass which anticipates Divine Mercy Sunday. Please register separately for the 5 p.m. Mass. The church will be emptied for sanitizing between the two events.
The Divine Mercy Novena, prayed over 9 days from Good Friday through the Sunday following Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday). is an opportunity to express trust in the greatness of God’s mercy, to pray for different groups of souls and to immerse them in the fount of mercy represented by the blood and water flowing from the wounds of Christ crucified, as was revealed to St. Faustina Kowalska.
- Eucharistic Adoration is time spent praying before the Blessed Sacrament, the Eucharist, recognizing that we are with Jesus when we are with the Eucharist in which Jesus is truly present.
- The Liturgy of the Hours, or Divine Office, is the set of daily prayers prayed at different hours of each day by priests, ordinary lay Catholics, and religious communities of monks and nuns with whom it is especially associated.
- The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy is a different set of prayers, for the salvation of souls, that can be prayed with the help of the beads of an ordinary Rosary.